(n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
(n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
(n.) A velvet smoothing brush.
(n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
(v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(2) Krell is also trying to lure Mothercare to the negotiating table.
(3) But will it be enough to lure the AstraZeneca board to the negotiating table?
(4) Cameron also believes the planned peace talks can lure Assad's acolytes to break with their leader by vowing that if he goes, the existing military and security services will be preserved, saying the aim was "to learn the lessons of Iraq".
(5) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
(6) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(7) Experiment 2 showed that between 1 week and 6 months, both kinds of responses declined at a similar, gradual rate and that despite quite low levels of performance after 6 months, both kinds of responses still gave rise to accurate discrimination between target words and lures.
(8) Many of its best practitioners are lured into management and education, where direct patient contact may be minimal or non-existent.
(9) O'Donnell said higher pay for procurement specialists would help departments retain staff who were otherwise lured to better paid posts in the private sector.
(10) Days after The Guardian broke the news (despite whatever Sky sources might think) that Arsenal want to lure Jamie Vardy away, now Arsène Wenger apparently wants to take Riyad Mahrez too.
(11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
(12) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
(13) In its defence, Luxembourg quickly pointed the finger at other jurisdictions — Belgium and Ireland among them — claiming they too offered attractive but confidential tax rulings in an effort to lure inward investment.
(14) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
(15) But he said others “are not necessarily deeply committed to and engaged with the Islamist ideology but are nonetheless, due to a range of reasons, including mental health issues, susceptible to being motivated and lured rapidly down a dangerous path by the terrorist narrative”.
(16) As for a more permanent solution, it’s now up to Cromartie and the Montreal Baseball Project to try to take advantage of the momentum, seek to form a would-be local ownership group, secure government stadium funding and begin the process of trying to lure the two teams with outstanding stadium issues, Tampa Bay and Oakland, over to Montreal.
(17) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
(18) Police say nothing at this stage identified the three girls as being at risk of falling for the lure of Isis propaganda.
(19) Russians lured by low taxes keep about €20bn in bank deposits in Cyprus.
(20) The rheotactism which appears as soon as the eyes are pigmented has been used for the presentation of lures, thus allowing the study of the stimuli releasing the feeding activity and the breeding of 913 individuals up to the alevin stage.
(superl.) Certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health.
(superl.) Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring.
(superl.) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
(superl.) Free from danger; safe; secure.
(adv.) In a sure manner; safely; certainly.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(2) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(3) To be sure, the demonstration of pulmonary aspiration with GRS had little influence on patient selection and response to therapy.
(4) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(5) Surely Michael wasn't saying he agreed with what Blair is doing?
(6) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(7) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(8) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
(9) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(10) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(11) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
(12) "If I hadn't scored that goal, I might still have ended up playing in Italy [Platt went on to play for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria] but, realistically, I'm sure it was the catalyst.
(13) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(14) Their brutality seems to have been fairly even-handed, or if it wasn't, the men surely suffered enough not to be presented as the winners of the atrocity.
(15) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
(16) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
(17) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(18) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
(19) Financial experts aren't immediately sure what to make of the report, but one theory is that the figure includes the 'profits' the European Central Bank has made by buying Greek debt at distressed levels since the crisis began: econhedge (@econhedge) suggestion that this is planned EUR31.5b+ECB profits.
(20) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.